QUOTESRacing Stripes - Four-footed fun for kids and adults.
The Ring Two - Better, scarier, more intense than the first.
House of D - A heartfelt gem of a movie!
Madagascar - The year's funniest movie! Grown-up or cub, two feet or four - you'll howl with delight!
The Island - A big summer adventure as only Michael Bay can do it!
Red Eye - The summer's scariest surprise!
Valiant - Action! Thrills! Feathered fun for the whole family!
Just Like Heaven - A sure-fire clue for the movie blues.
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio - Pure magic...Julianne Moore is positively brilliant!
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - Howlingly funny.
Dreamer – Whole families are cheering! It’s rousing and inspiring – Dakota Fanning and Kurt Russell are terrific.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Devilishly clever.
The Legend of Zorro - Filled with thrills and action
Derailed - Riveting. You can’t take your eyes off the screen. A pure adrenaline rush of a thriller.
Get Rich or Die Tryin’ - Hard-edged and high velocity.
Transamerica - One of the best films of the year and one of the most provocative. A stunning, award-worthy performances by Felicity Huffman that must be seen!
Casanova - One of the year’s best films is also one of the funniest._________________Erik Childress
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QUOTESAssault on Precinct 13 - Hardcore Bad-Ass - Amazingly Entertaining
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior = Just awe-inspiring! Without a doubt, an awesome cinematic experience on par with the best martial arts ever unleashed on the screen. (Harry Knowles)
Oldboy - Easily among the best of the year. A brilliant masterpiece.(Harry Knowles)
Dot the I - This year's Memento.
Kung Fu Hustle - Just $?*%#@& Genius! A masterpiece! (Harry Knowles)
Palindromes - Todd Solondz's best film by far! Shocking, emotionally centered - it's moving.
Mind The Gap - This is a beautiful film - do not miss Mind the Gap. (Harry Knowles)
Unleashed - Incredibly intense! Morgan Freeman and Jet Li are so charismatic together.
Mail Order Wife - You gotta see it for yourself...A great film. (Moriarty)
Hustle and Flow - The very best film I've seen this year. (Harry Knowles)
The Island - Bigger, faster, cooler!
Undead - Everything about this film is exceptional.
My Date With Drew - Laughs and tears for all...and has a big heart, just like Drew.
Pretty Persuasion - Brutally hilarious. James Woods is riotous.
Green Street Hooligans - (1) Completely Original (PLB) (2) Good movie (3) Edgy and completely original...One hell of a good movie! (4) Truly inspiring (Annette Kellerman) (5) A winner (Harry Knowles)
Lord of War - A wild ride!
The Thing About My Folks - A terrific film! Peter Falk is a national treasure here. Paul Reiser is note perfect. (Harry Knowles)
Elizabethtown - Elizabethtown is a bit of magic! Kirsten Dunst is fantastically fabulous and Orlando Bloom is just great.
Doom - Doom is a blast. It’s a big fun film. This isn’t just an adaptation of Doom, it’s an adaptation of the culture of Doom. I was delighted that this movie was this fun. (Harry Knowles)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Absolutely spectacular. Everything about this film kicks a@#. (Harry Knowles)
Aeon Flux - A very accomplished film._________________Erik Childress
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QUOTESBride & Prejudice - Hilarious and romantic!
Hostage - A nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride!
Sin City - Unlike anything you have seen before
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room - **** Eye-opening and jaw-dropping! The most important documentary you'll see this year.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - **** The most wondrously original, most outrageously entertaining cinematic spectacle of the year!
House of Wax - **** The best American horror film of the year.
Deep Blue - Absolutely stunning. ****! A cinematic masterpiece.
Apres Vous - An unusual French treat. Sly, funnier than hell, and deliciously unexpected!
Herbie: Fully Loaded - Fuel-injected family fun.
Dark Water - A first-rate cast! Hands down, the year's creepiest, most unsettling thriller. Jennifer Connelly & John C. Reilly are at the top of their game.
The Island - Intelligent, original and unexpected.
Sky High - **** Incredibly funny, hip, clever and inventive! Super-sensational and super-hilarious!
Valiant - **** Soaring entertainment for everyone!
39 Pounds of Love - Sorry Penguins - this is the best documentary of the year!

QUOTESAre We There Yet? - The best family fun since the original Home Alone
Mindhunters - Heart-stopping...Incredibly suspenseful!
Must Love Dogs - The best romantic comedy since When Harry Met Sally.
Red Eye - This is one flight you won't want to miss._________________Erik Childress
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QUOTESAssault on Precinct 13 - Shocking and even surprising! Smarter and more classically dramatic than most modern shoot-'em-ups.
House of Wax - A fright film that delivers the shocking goods with wit and style.
Kicking and Screaming - Kicking and Screaming scores! Will Ferrell's funnier than ever._________________Erik Childress
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QUOTESCoach Carter - A perfect way to start the new year with a great film that is both entertaining and inspiring. Samuel L. Jackson is powerful and poignant.
Aliens of the Deep - Wow! A mind-bending journey!
Monster-in-Law - A monster of a match-up. Jane and Jennifer are hilarious together.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith - High-voltage action! If this were any hotter, the screen would ignite!
Sky High - Harry Potter meets Spy Kids_________________Erik Childress
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QUOTESHowl's Moving Castle - An absolute triumph on every level that even tops his Oscar-winning Spirited Away.
Land of the Dead - Bow down to the master and accept no substitutions. Star Wars, Batman and the others better watch out! This is the movie we've been waiting for! One of the year's most purely entertaining films.
Dark Water - The year's first genuinely frightening edge-of-your-seat chiller. Even Hitchcock could not have done better.
Wedding Crashers - The bust-a-gut, roll-in-the-aisle finniest movie of the year. Do yourself a favor and crash this 'Wedding'!
Stealth - Wow! Stealth takes your breath away. For sheer non-stop action and aerial thrills this movie just soars above the rest!
The Dukes of Hazzard - A high octane, revved up southern fried good time with an irresistible cast.
Four Brothers - Four Brothers' arrives just in time to turn the summer heat way up. An explosive action-drama with a top-notch cast that ignites the screen.
The Great Raid - An amazing true story. It shows what real heroism is all about.
The 40-Year Old Virgin - Outrageously hilarious! The sleeper hit of the summer. An unexpectedly smart comedy.
The Brothers Grimm - Outrageously entertaining! Matt Damon and Heath Ledger are perfectly cast!
The Exorcism of Emily Rose - ...terrific performances and a riveting story so compelling you won't be able to take your eyes off the screen!
Proof - Look out Oscar.
A History of Violence - *****! The most exciting film of the year, it's also easily one of the best! Viggo Mortensen is terrifidc. Maria Bello is sizzlingly hot!
Lord of War - Nicolas Cage gives one of the best performances of the year.
Flightplan - Jodie Foster rocks! One terrifying trip. Fasten your seatbelts and hang onto your seats for a first-rate thriller. Suspenseful and gripping.
The Greatest Game Ever Played - Timeless and inspiring!
North Country - Sensational! North Country is crackling good entertainment that also stands out as one of the year’s most important movies.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - The most original film this year.
Shopgirl - A smart, stylish, and funny look at relationships from the brilliant mind of Steve Martin. Claire Danes is a revelation and Jason Schwartzman is hilariously on target.
Chicken Little - Full of fun. With big out-of-this-world laughter.
Jarhead - A timeless masterwork! Jarhead is one of this year’s can’t-miss movies, unlike any other war film you will ever see. A gripping, deeply personal and often bitingly funny view of life on the front lines. Leading a brilliant cast Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard and Jamie Foxx are simply superb.
Rent - ...Thrilling...A major movie event! Rosario Dawson will knock you out!
Transamerica - Felicity Huffman is simply remarkable in a performance so convincing, fiercely funny and deeply powerful it should make her a major Oscar contender.
The World’s Fastest Indian - Anthony Hopkins gives the greatest film performance of his entire career. He deserves another Oscar.
Memoirs of a Geisha - A stunning motion picture experience in the grand tradition! Director Rob Marshall vividly brings Arthur Golden’s best seller to life with an irresistible cast of women who will have your eyes glued to the screen.
King Kong - King Kong rules over all the others. As big, breathtakingly exciting and relentlessly thrilling as any epic adventure the screen has seen in many years! If you think you’ve seen Kong, you ain’t seen nothing yet!
The Producers - The Producers delivers huge belly laughs and lots of fun. Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick make one of the greatest comedy teams ever. Uma Thurman is sexy and sensational. Will Ferrell is comic perfection.
Mrs. Henderson Presents - You’re gonna love it! One of the most entertaining films of the year!
Casanova - Heath Ledger turns on the charm and burns up the screen with sheer romantic heat.
The Ringer - One of this year’s most unexpected comedy surprises! The Ringer gets the gold medal for genuine heart and comic inspiration. Johnny Knoxville scores a whole lotta laughs!
Match Point - A winning combination of sex, mystery, brilliant writing and first-rate acting that all adds up to one of the most erotic and exhilarating movies in years.

QUOTESThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Out of this world! Every bit as smart and funny as the book that inspired it!
Batman Begins - If you only see one movie this year, make it Batman Begins.
Bewitched - Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell are perfect together.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - A must-see instant classic.
The Brothers Grimm - Matt Damon & Heath Ledger are terrific!
The Exorcism of Emily Rose - ...Smart, thought-provoking
Memoirs of a Geisha - **** One of the year’s best films. An Oscar-worthy effort, brilliantly directed by Rob Marshall._________________Erik Childress
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QUOTESIn My Country - A first-rate drama.
Crash - As brilliant as it is brave.
Me and You and Everyone We Know - Not to be missed! Profound insight, humor and tenderness.
Yes - Remarkable! A thoughtful look at love, politics, and the large area of overlap between them.
November - An edgy psychothriller. Courteney Cox pulls off the move to dark drama with typical flair!
Asylum - A dizzyingly erotic romance!
Grizzly Man - **** (credited with Vanity Fair)
The Constant Gardener - Edge-of-your-seat thriller.
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio - Marvelous._________________Erik Childress
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QUOTESMarch of the Penguins - Miraculous!
Happy Endings - A perfectly wonderful comedy!
The Island - A full-throttle thrill ride.
My Date with Drew - Brilliant...you simply have to see this film!
Red Eye - Wes Craven has done it again...Bring some popcorn and someone to grab onto.
An Unfinished Life - Director Lasse Hallstrom delivers another beautiful tale with exquisite storytelling and some of the year's finest performances.
Just Like Heaven - Witherspoon and Ruffalo are a classic comedy duo...One of the best romantic comedies to come along in years.
Proof - One of the best films of the year! Jake Gyllenhaal gives a captivating performance.
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio - One of the best films I have ever seen. Tell everyone you know...it will stay with you for years to come.
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - A wondrous Halloween surprise. A very funny adventure for children and adults alike.
Derailed - The tension builds and builds until it boils! A thriller with twists at every turn._________________Erik Childress
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QUOTESTransporter 2 - A cool, slick, action-packed adventure!
A History of Violence - Riverting, captivating and extremely entertaining.
Stay - Riveting! A psychological thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Chicken Little - Forget what you think you know! Chicken Little is fresh, funny and totally original.
Derailed - Terrifiying, intense & totally entertaining! A sexy psychological thriller. Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston burn up the screen. There hasn't been a movie like this since Fatal Attraction. The thriller of the year. The performance of her career.
King Kong - Exciting, intense and incredibly moving!_________________Erik Childress
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QUOTESOng-Bak: The Thai Warrior - Wildy entertaining!
Melinda and Melinda - One of the best movies that Woody Allen has ever done. Will Ferrell is fantastic. Radha Mitchell is exquisite. I absolutely loved it!
Palindromes - Appallingly funny! A delight to the finish.
Mysterious Skin - A truly great film with an ending as transcendent as it is mysterious. Dark, sexy and smart.
High Tension - It will scare the living hell out of you!
Last Days - Extraordinary! This could actually be on the best films about rock ever.
2046 - A ravishing masterpiece! A tangle of lust, memory and sweet regret.
Ma Mere - Astonishing. Isabelle Huppert is fearless.
Thumbsucker - One of the year's very best!_________________Erik Childress
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QUOTESMonster-in-Law - The best comedy since Meet the Parents.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose - ...smart, elegant and very, very creepy.
In Her Shoes - Funny and profound. Diaz, Collette and MacLaine all deserve Oscars!
Prime - The year’s best romantic comedy. Sharp, funny and very sexy.
Walk the Line - A wonderful movie. It’s already an Oscar frontrunner. Director James Mangold taps into one of the great American love stories – a gripping tale of sin and redemption – with miraculous performances by Phoenix and Witherspoon. This year you won’t see anything on screen more vibrant than Joaquin Phoenix as the man in black.
The Producers - Some of the biggest laughs you’ll have in a movie theatre this year.
Mrs. Henderson Presents - Hilarious, heartfelt and inspiring! Judi Dench is flawlessly funny._________________Erik Childress
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QUOTESMindhunters - A thrill-a-minute, unpredictable blast!
Red Eye - A thrilling white-knuckle flight. Wes Craven is at his best here...don't miss this Red Eye
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - A hare-raising adventure perfect for the whole family!
Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story - A complete delight…It’ll leave you cheering.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - So spectacularly thrilling, you’ll want to see it again._________________Erik Childress
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QUOTESMillions - ***1/2! A rare family film that entertains enormously while presenting painless and substantive lessons in life's authentic pangs and joys.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Hilarious.
The Aristocrats - Wonderfully raunchy. The comic highlights are countless.
The Squid and the Whale - Noah Baumbach’s comic drama packs a dazzling range of insights…It bears repeat viewings.
King Kong - Dazzling. It was reasonable to figure there was no way Jackson could top his monumental The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Yet Jackson’s done so with his spectacular update…passionately commemorating the original while adding chills, frills and thrills by the boatload._________________Erik Childress
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QUOTESThe Longest Yard - The Longest Yard goes the distance.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - A rare movie! Women of any age will appreciate the steadfast support and loyalty these characters have for each other.
The 40-Year Old Virgin - A mix of surprisingly subtle humor, inspired writing, meticulous details and a fabulously eclectic cast.
Little Manhattan - It’s hard not to have a smile on your face while watching this film.
Lord of War - Smart, thrilling and darkly funny.
A History of Violence - The performances are uniformly excellent.
Capote - Surely one of the year’s absolute best. Director Bennett Miller and writer Dan Futterman offer astonishing debuts with actors giving the performances of a lifetime.
Where the Truth Lies - Intoxicating.
Walk the Line - Extraordinary._________________Erik Childress
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QUOTESBride & Prejudice - Delightfully clever & energetic.
Off the Map - Perhaps the most evocative movie of the year.
Land of the Dead - Pure entertainment and superbly well done. Land of the Dead has everything people on dates could want.
The Aristocrats - Howlingly funny. Indescribably filthy. One of the funniest films I've seen in years.
The 40-Year Old Virgin - The 40 Year-Old Virgin's script is so hip, funny and - yes - innocent that it's never offensive. Carell is brilliant.
Two for the Money - It’s Glengarry Glen Ross in a sports bar.
North Country - North Country will have audiences cheering.
Paradise Now - The kind of movie that takes away both your breath and your ability to get out of your seat.
The World’s Fastest Indian - Anthony Hopkins gives one of his best and certainly most infectious performances. You have never seen an actor happier in the skin of another person.
The White Countess - Natasha Richardson’s performance is one of the year’s very best._________________Erik Childress
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QUOTESMelinda and Melinda - ***1/2 Melinda and Melinda marks the most welcome kind of homecoming for screen comedy's erstwhile duke of urban neuroses.
Brothers - A powerhouse drama that puts us through a wringer of emotions right up to its hopeful finale.
Kung Fu Hustle - **** Rambunctiously entertaining
Bewitched - Surprisingly delightful. Nora Ephron (co-screenwriter with Delia Ephron) spins out some of her funniest lines since Meg Ryan faked out Billy Crystal at the deli in When Harry Met Sally.
Me and You and Everyone We Know - A blissfully off-the-map romantic comedy.
Lila Says - An exquisite place of intimacy where sexual bravado meets the heart.
Junebug - It is only a matter of time before Phil Morrison achieves the status of Jim Jarmusch, Gus Van Sant and Woody Allen.
The Syrian Bride - ***1/2
Ushpizin - **** Ushpizin renders us helpless to the singular pleasures of a fable perfectly told.
The White Countess - A sumptuously satisfying romantic drama that offers up heaps of everything we have come to depend on Merchant and Ivory for. Impassioned performances from the crème de la crème of English-speaking actors. Ralph Fiennes has never been finer._________________Erik Childress
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